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The Last Will and Testament of David Edgerton
In the name of God Amen.
This 18th day of March AD 1769
I David Edgerton of Norwich in the County of New London and Colony of
Connecticut in New England calling to mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye and being now of sound
and disposing mind and memory Do make and ordain this my Last Will and
Testament, that is to say principaly and first of all I give and recommend my
soul into the hands of God what gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth
to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor
nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall recover the same
again by the mighty power of God. – And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give [----] and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. – Imprimis I give and
bequeath unto Silence my dearly beloved wife all my moveable estate of every
kind (after my just debts and funeral charges are paid) to be at her dispose
for ever. I also will order and
bequeath to my said wife Silence the sole use and improvement of all my lands
and buildings that I shall dye possessed of during her natural life. – Item after the decease
of my said wife Silence my will is and I do hereby give and bequeath all my
real estate as Lands and Buildings to the inhabitants of the West or Second
Society in said Norwich and their successors in said Society for ever to be
improved for the benefit of schooling youth in said Society to the last
generation – and it is my will that the respective school commissors in said
Society for the time being have the oversight and care of said real estate
willed to said Society and that they gather in the rents and profits of said
estate yearly and pay the sums to the several schoolmasters that shall be
approved of by said Society yearly and take said master receipts for what
they recover, each and every year for ever hereafter and lodge the receipts
in said Society’s clerk’s office yearly. – And I do likewise make my friend Ephraim Kingsbury of said
Norwich my sole executor of this my Last Will Ratifying and Confirming this
and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by the said
David Edgerton to be his Last Will and testament on the day and year written
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